What Is the Purpose? Why Am I Alive? Is There a Meaning to Life?

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Modern-day civilization suffers
from an epidemic of emptiness, a

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feeling that life has no meaning
or purpose.

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This leads to various coping
mechanisms, such as dissipation,

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through use of drugs, or
alcohol, or through consumption

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of mindless entertainment.
For those who do not choose

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these mechanisms.
There are suicidal impulses in

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some cases as well as a general
feeling of malaise listlessness,

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apathy and a lack of care about
their lives.

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And their actions Some seek
Thrills through high-risk

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activities to try to discover
something that awakens them from

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this torpor, some simply use
this lack of purpose as an

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excuse to eat drink and be
merry.

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It is the rare individual, who
uses this experience, or this

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more or less constant sense of
aimlessness to seek out and find

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the significance of their lives
and of existence in general.

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These individuals start on a
path of discovery.

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It may begin with a search in
one of the scientific Fields,

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exploring first, the creation of
matter in the universe.

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Eventually they find energy and
then Consciousness if they push

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this seeking along far enough
Others May seek to find a

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meaning in the religious or
philosophical traditions that

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have Arisen based on the seeking
and efforts of others.

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In the past, still others, go on
a Vision Quest or seek within to

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find out why they have been born
the purpose for which they live.

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And the aim of the life, they
are leading.

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This is how the spiritual Quest
awakens in the heart of the

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individual and motivates him
drives him to find the answers

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that have been missing from his
life.

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The mother observes quote one
suddenly feels that everything

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one does, everything one sees
has no meaning, no purpose but

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that there is something which
has a meaning that essentially

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one is here on Earth for
something that all is all these

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movements.
All this agitation all is

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wastage of force an energy.
Well, that must have a purpose

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and aim and that this uneasiness
one feels within oneself.

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This lack of satisfaction.
This need this thirst for

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something, must lead us
somewhere else.

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And one day you ask yourself,
but then why is one born, why

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does one died?
Why does one suffer, why does

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one act you?
No longer live like a little

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machine hardly half-conscious.
You want to feel truly to act,

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truly to know, truly then in
ordinary life one searches for

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books for people who know a
little more than oneself.

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When begins to seek somebody who
can solve these questions lift,

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the veil of ignorance in quote
reference SRI aurobindo on the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 2 Awakening of
Consciousness page 27.